Storytelling Quotes · Page 71

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

— Sherwood Anderson

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

— Terry Brooks

“Till you outgrow white narrative, you'll never learn the human story.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.”

— Jane Alison

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

— Karla Souza

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

— Joe Wright

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

— Mary Higgins Clark

Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience…

— Arbaaz Khan

“He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale…

— Sei Shonagon

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the…

— Javier Cazañ

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to…

— Patricia A. McKillip

Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions.

— Anthony Doerr

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader…

— John Updike

“Greater skill and value is found in creating a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form.…

— VD

“The worldview of a people, though normally left unspoken in the daily business of buying and selling and counting shekels, is to…

— Thomas Cahill

Love Isn't Perfect, It Isn't Fairy Tale Or Storybook, And It Doesn't Always Come Easy. Love Is overcoming Obstacles, Facing Challenges, Fighting…

— Pacifiersucker

I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part…

— Uzodinma Iweala

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative…

— John Burnside

“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive…

— Hillary Clinton

“There are certain bits of stories that, because of their nature, are rather dull. This is because very little happens in them.…

— Adrienne Kress

“In this universe if we’re lucky, we will live in our children’s stories, their tales that will turn us to legend, some…

— Jeanne Lohmann

“We shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, then with the truth,…

— Akash Mandal

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

— Hasan Minhaj

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

— Willa Cather

“you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??”

— Ryan North

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

— Rick Wakeman

'Lucky Life' is my second narrative film. I worked on the idea for 'Lucky Life' while in Rwanda for my first film.

— Lee Isaac Chung

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

— Joseph Campbell

Some films are aspirational. But there is room for stories which don't have a beginning or end.

— Soha Ali Khan

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

— David Mixner

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

— Alethea Kontis

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

— Sandra Bullock

You never quite know what's in store for the Royal Rumble, and I think that's the beauty of it.

— Kofi Kingston

“I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe in making my own damn tale.”

— Nicole Williams

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

— Hans Christian Andersen

I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode.

— Salim Akil